department of medicine

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Meet the Faculty

The program is administered by Darilyn Moyer, MD. She reports directly to the Chair of Medicine. The Residency offices are located on the 8th floor, Room 812, of the Parkinson Pavilion. 

• Darilyn Moyer, MD, FACP, Program Director
• Susan Gersh, MD, FACP, Deputy Program Director

• Rafik Samuel, MD, FACP, Associate Program Director
• William Brady, MD, Associate Program Director
• Lawrence Ward, MD, MPH, FACP, Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Education
• Maria Cruz, Program Coordinator
• Stephanie Ragsdale, Residency Program staff
• Jay Jimenez, Residency Program staff

Chief Residents play an integral role in the maintenance and educational components of the program. The 2011-2012 chief residents and their career aspirations are as follows:

• Adrienne Freidl, MD (Primary Care)
• Vishnu Kulasekaran, MD (Primary Care)
• Merranda Logan, MD (Nephrology)
• Neel Patel, DO (Cardiology)
• Namrata Vijayvergia, MD (Hematology/Oncology)
  

Pictured above at the 2011 APDIM Chief Resident Conference from left to right: Vishnu Kulasekaran, MD; Merranda Logan, MD; Adrienne Freidl, MD;, Neel Patel, DO; Namrata Vijayvergia MD.

Other key clinical faculty members of the program administration include:

• Thomas Comerci, MD, Director of Global Health Elective
• Gerard Criner, MD, Co-RICU Director
• Guiliana Defrancesch, MD, Co-Director of Inpatient Education, Core Faculty
• Holly Dushkin, MD, Director, Fox Chase Cancer Center site
• Duane Kirksey, MD, Director of Geriatrics
• Mary Kraemer, MD, Director of Palliative Care and Reflections in Medicine Conference
• Elizabeth Lee, MD, Director of Ambulatory Block Rotation, Core Faculty
• Karen Lin, MD, MPH, Director of Medicine 4th Year Clerkship
• Keith McNellis, MD, Co-Director of Inpatient Education, Core Faculty
• Nathaniel Marchetti, DO, Co-RICU Director
• Brian Meyer, MD, Co-Director of Outpatient Block Rotation, Core Faculty
• Alisa Peet, MD, Director of Medicine 3rd year clerkship
• Ben Sanchez, MD, CCU Director and Cardiology Fellowship Director
• Gina Simoncini, MD, Director of Primary Care Track
• Bizath Taqui, MD, Journal Club Director, Co-Director of Inpatient Education, Core Faculty

The administrative support is:

Maria Cruz	Stephanie Ragsdale	Jay Jimenez

Many other faculty give major contributions to the residency program. Please refer to the faculty directory for more information.

Among them are:

Lawrence Kaplan, MD, Assistant Dean for Clinical Education, Professor of Medicine

Jose Missri, MD, Section Chief, Cardiology
Jacob Ufberg, MD, Residency Program Director, Emergency Medicine
Kevin Williams, MD, Section Chief, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Robert, Fisher, MD, Section Chief, Gastroenterology
A. Koneti Rao, MD, Section Chief, Hematology
Thomas Fekete, MD, Section Chief, Infectious Diseases
Philip Cohen, MD, Section Chief, Rheumatology

Crystal Gadegbeku, MD, Section Chief, Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation